[CentOS] ClamAV from EPEL

Sun May 15 07:05:29 UTC 2016
James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>

On 15 May 2016 07:11, "Jon LaBadie" <jcu at labadie.us> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 02:55:01AM +0000, Richard wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Saturday, May 14, 2016 16:20:41 -0700
> > > From: Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>
> > >
> > > On 05/14/2016 01:22 PM, Walter H. wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> just curious;
> > >> since March 3rd, 2016 everdays logwatch-mail
> > >> shows this:
> > >>
> > >>   Last Status:
> > >>      WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> > >>      WARNING: Local version: 0.99 Recommended version: 0.99.1
> > >>
> > >> do these warnings raise any problems?
> > >> could they be suppressed?
> > >>
> > > It's been awhile since I used ClamAV but when I did, I would
> > > rebuild the new version by modifying the src.rpm of the old version
> > > to the new version but using a 0 in the release tag so that it
> > > would be replaced by a repo maintained version as soon as it hit
> > > the repositories.
> > >
> >
> > It generally takes a week or so for an update to make it to epel.
> > They are still showing 0.99.1-1. You might want to check the
> > epel-testing repo in a couple of days.
> >
> > I think that that clamav warning message is a bit more dire sounding
> > than necessary.
> >
> Agreed.  As an observation, I don't update daily, but  more than
> once a week.  For the last two clamav updates, 0.98.7->0.99 and
> 0.99->0.99.1, the warnings lasted for 5 and 4 weeks.
>

Well it's not even been built for rawhide yet:

https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/clamav

I know nb has been pretty busy this week, letsencrypt rebranded to certbot
and we've been validating the package rename etc

Keep an eye on this bug for activity:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333949